AI Image Generation Training

Every tool has a character and a blind spot; you cannot choose without knowing both.

1. 1.1 Model Characters

   The same prompt produces a different aesthetic in different models. Which is strong at photorealism, illustration and graphic work.

   Takeaway: You choose a model based on the type of work.

2. 1.2 Known Weaknesses

   Hands, text, symmetry and crowded scenes. Knowing where models stumble makes review faster.

   Takeaway: You know exactly where to look in what you produce.

3. 1.3 Credit Economics

   Which operation sits on the expensive layer and where experimentation belongs. Deciding cheaply, producing expensively.

   Takeaway: You get more work out of the same budget.

A prompt is not a sentence but six decisions written separately.

1. 2.1 The Six Layers

   Subject, action, setting, light, composition and style. Writing each separately makes the result predictable.

   Takeaway: You write a layered, editable prompt.

2. 2.2 The One Emotion Rule

   An image carries a single emotion. Forcing two into the same frame weakens both.

   Takeaway: You define what the image says in one sentence.

3. 2.3 The Anti-Cliché Pre-Flight

   Avoiding the default aesthetic of the tools: excess gloss, generic poses, fake bokeh and repeated patterns.

   Takeaway: You make a cliché check a habit before generating.

Producing from imagination depends on luck; producing from a reference can be managed.

1. 3.1 Taking a Reference Apart

   Breaking an image you admire into its parts: direction of light, lens feel, colour relationships and framing. Learning without copying.

   Takeaway: You reduce a reference to describable components.

2. 3.2 Product and Location References

   Moving a product photograph you already have into new scenes while preserving the real product.

   Takeaway: You place your own product into different scenes.

3. 3.3 Motif Consistency

   Establishing a repeating visual signature across a series — colour, texture and framing rhythm.

   Takeaway: You produce a series rather than a single image.

One thing separates brand work from amateur work: being able to produce the same image twice.

1. 4.1 Identity Lock

   Reference and locking techniques that preserve the same face or the same product across different frames.

   Takeaway: You produce the same character consistently in different scenes.

2. 4.2 Brand Colour and Light

   Carrying your brand palette into generation and keeping light consistent between scenes.

   Takeaway: Your images carry your brand colour.

3. 4.3 The Character Sheet

   Preparing a multi-angle reference set for a character or product — the basis of every later generation.

   Takeaway: You build a reference set you will reuse.

A generated image is raw material; the publishable version comes after processing.

1. 5.1 Upscaling and Cleanup

   Increasing resolution, correcting defects and preparing for print.

   Takeaway: You prepare an image for the medium it will appear in.

2. 5.2 Background and Frame

   Background removal, frame extension and adapting to different aspect ratios.

   Takeaway: You produce a multi-format set from a single image.

3. 5.3 The Text Layer

   Adding type as a separate layer instead of generating it inside the image, and checking it letter by letter.

   Takeaway: You deliver images containing text without errors.

Commercial work needs legal clarity as much as technical skill.

1. 6.1 Commercial Usage Terms

   Comparing usage rights by tool and subscription, and what to watch for in client work.

   Takeaway: You know which image may be used where.

2. 6.2 The Quality Gate

   The checklist run before delivery: hands, text, consistency of light, brand colour and a cliché scan.

   Takeaway: You review your own work before it ships.

3. 6.3 Brand Usage Policy

   Who in the team may produce what, what requires approval and how the archive is kept.

   Takeaway: You leave with a written usage policy.